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niyad

(113,344 posts)
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 02:05 PM Dec 2017

Cadet Run Out of West Point After Accusing Army's Star Quarterback of Rape (F*** football)

Last edited Tue Dec 12, 2017, 01:19 PM - Edit history (1)

(when we hear that things are getting better on the sexual assault front--think of this (oh, and brock turner, who wants his conviction overturned.


HOW much is it costing the taxpayers to keep this man at west point, and, more importantly to them, on the playing field??)


FUCK the athletes who get off!!

HONOR CODE?


Cadet Run Out of West Point After Accusing Army’s Star Quarterback of Rape


He was cleared by the school and the Army—and became captain of the football team. She says she was shamed by fellow cadets and disrespected by the academy’s leaders.

https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/d_placeholder_euli9k/dpr_2.0/c_limit,w_585/fl_lossy,q_auto/171207-brandy-westpoint-qb-embed1_hmzoko

interesting how this article omits any mention of the charges above


http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-spt-army-ahmad-bradshaw-quarterback-20171206-story.html
Madeline Lewis was born to go to West Point. She says her parents brought her home from the hospital wearing a onesie with “West Point” emblazoned across the chest. For several Halloweens in a row, she dressed up as a West Point Cheerleader. A picture of her in costume sits on her grandmother’s desk. “West Point was just something I grew up with,” Lewis says. Lewis was a legacy cadet, the granddaughter of 1965 West Point grad Dennis Lewis Sr., who played for the practice football team, and was awarded the Bronze star with valor for his later service in Vietnam leading Army infantrymen.

. . . .
Three weeks into the 2014 school year, Lewis, who was still on crutches and needed surgery, says she met Ahmad Ali Bradshaw, a West Point quarterback who was best friends with her roommate. One night, as Lewis later told West Point investigators, she came back to her room after a shower. Bradshaw was there and, she claimed, he raped her.

. . . .

West Point launched an investigation into her claims, a school report obtained by The Daily Beast shows. Despite Bradshaw’s denial of sex, West Point’s internal investigation led by Maj. Damon M. Torres concluded that a sexual relationship between the cadets had indeed occurred, but Torres called it consensual. It is unclear from the documents how Torres arrived at that conclusion, and West Point declined to share specifics, citing privacy for both parties. Nevertheless, Bradshaw was charged with a violation of Article 1 of the Cadet Disciplinary Code for improper use of government facilities by way of “sexual activity, which includes, but is not limited to: kissing, hand holding, and fondling,” according to West Point regulations.

. . . .
Meanwhile, Bradshaw became West Point’s star quarterback. He scored the game-winning touchdown against Navy last year, breaking Army’s 14-game losing streak to its arch-rival. But perhaps Bradshaw shouldn’t have been playing at all. According to a document provided by the Army source, Bradshaw has been the subject of numerous negative conduct reports besides the one involving Lewis—even violating West Point’s famed honor code for cheating in 2016, which should have seen him benched for the 2016 fall season but did not.
. . . .

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cadet-run-out-of-west-point-after-accusing-armys-star-quarterback-of-rape



but this adoring article mentions none of the above:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-spt-army-ahmad-bradshaw-quarterback-20171206-story.html

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Cadet Run Out of West Point After Accusing Army's Star Quarterback of Rape (F*** football) (Original Post) niyad Dec 2017 OP
KICK Angry Dragon Dec 2017 #1
K&R Gothmog Dec 2017 #2
prob rich Daddy and (Star quarterback i mean) bluestarone Dec 2017 #3
which one of them do you mean? niyad Dec 2017 #4
sorry for that bluestarone Dec 2017 #5
Knowing how Jocks brag Wellstone ruled Dec 2017 #6
I noticed that the article did not say who. niyad Dec 2017 #7
I know the info is available Wellstone ruled Dec 2017 #9
I'm inclined to give West Point the benefit of the doubt - would she have filed a report on her own? FarCenter Dec 2017 #8
give west point the benefit of the doubt???? read the article, please, to see the preferential niyad Dec 2017 #10
From what I read in that article, that guy has no business in the military academy. Tipperary Dec 2017 #11
precisely!!! niyad Dec 2017 #12
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. Knowing how Jocks brag
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 03:21 PM
Dec 2017

The real Story will emerge. First thing that would be interesting,which Senator or House Member sponsored this Guy? In that would be a real story.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
9. I know the info is available
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 05:24 PM
Dec 2017

but do not know how to chase it down. Was a Alternate back in the Stone Age,and my Sponsor was our Congressman from our District. And that only happened do to the School Superintendent surprising me for Driving his Spouse shopping and to Doctors Appointments in a Neighboring Town.

 

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
8. I'm inclined to give West Point the benefit of the doubt - would she have filed a report on her own?
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 03:52 PM
Dec 2017
A serious knee injury during basic training that summer and a difficult relationship with her roommate nearly spelled the end for Lewis, but she fought to stay—a decision she now regrets.



Lewis says her roommate—with whom she often argued—told on her for having sex in the barracks.

Lewis then filed a formal report, a copy which was viewed by The Daily Beast.

niyad

(113,344 posts)
10. give west point the benefit of the doubt???? read the article, please, to see the preferential
Tue Dec 12, 2017, 01:13 PM
Dec 2017

treatment their star quarterback, who would not BE at the academy if it were not for football, and what a poor, cheating, unfit for command cadet he is.

HONOR CODE? BS--and that goes for ALL the service academies, sucklers at the taxpayer teat.

 

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)
11. From what I read in that article, that guy has no business in the military academy.
Tue Dec 12, 2017, 02:03 PM
Dec 2017

Another case of football players being given special treatment.

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